Ransacked, robbed and torched: Help fire victim fight back

Tara Miko
Reporter
Tara started with APN in 2010 after graduating with a journalism and politics degree from Griffith University in Brisbane. After two-and-a-half years working on APN papers in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, she joined the team at The Chronicle in February 2013. In September that year she took over the reins of the Rural Weekly.

KELVIN Turner is stoic in the face of utter devastation - his house reduced to rubble, treasured possessions and memories now lost.

The 80-year-old semi-retired farmer from the Millmerran area has been left with one suit, a small bag of clothes and a partly damaged caravan after thieves ransacked his home then burned it to the ground.

Wedding photos of him and his late wife Colleen, who died of cancer in 2013, are all gone, along with her rare coin and stamp collection, his firearms and thousands of dollars in equipment he had stored on his Turner Rd property at Grays Gate.